Fog. Also a smoke layer. From 66 downtown. 62 across the bay. 64 on the peninsula and south bay 64 in san jose. Lots of fog. Not totally clearing. Mid 50s in santa rosa. The air quality poor. Right now look at the worst air quality well up into the north bay. Going further north throughout the day and into your sunday we still have a spare the air alert. The pinks indicating the worst area quality. We will get into a wind shift for your sunday and into the week ahead and that means warmer weather with an off shore floe. A look at the rest of the day where we have 60s around the bay. Upper60s to upper70s by noontime. Another comfortable afternoon. Although the air quality will be poor and well talk about how the heat will impact the fires in the days ahead. Liz . Lisa, thank you. Hundreds of people took to the streets of oakland and san jose overnight to protest Police Brutality. The demonstrations part of a day of activism around the country on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther kin
Have had with the weather, fires, heat. Rosemary has joined us to give us a look and breakdown on how things are going this morning good morning, ladies. We are looking at a transition back to the possibility of thunderstorms today and most of tomorrow. Outside our doors it is still quiet out there. We do have a red flag warning that went into place. It does not expire until tomorrow afternoon. The risk of thunderstorms and more importantly dry lightning along with those thunderstorms. We will talk about what you can expect for the afternoon and the extended forecast coming up in a little bit. We begin with the latest on the efforts to contain the czu lightning complex fire. We want to show you a map of where the fire is burning in relation to the scu lightning complex fire. The czu lightning complex fire is burning and southern San Mateo County. Northern Santa Cruz County as well. Firefighters say they are taking aggressive action and battling the fire. Lets show you some video of wha
Smoke so thick the sunlight could barely shine through. Across the bay area people woke up confused as they looked like night. Ktvu was flooded with photos from our viewers who pulled out the cameras to capture the eerie orange glow that lasted for much of the day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama joins us with more on how it all unfolded. Reporter this really was a first for many people here. This darkness during the day and the orange glow, for many businesses this was yet another setback. Almost like a dream, the entire bay area woke up to this. It felt like we were living on mars. Weed couldnt figure out what time it was, even if the afternoon was so dark and orange and red. It was apocalyptic. By 10 00 it was darker than it was at 7 00 a. M. Reporter the darkness and orange tent stretched from the bank and east contra costa county, like a nuclear fallout. Ash flying from the sky covered cards and straits. In San Francisco my friend said she had a hose down her car twice before it got all off.
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, streaming on cbsn bay area, were looking live from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look out east this morning. It is tuesday, august 18th. I am michelle griego. I am len keise. And lets get your forecast with meteorologist mary lee and it is going to be another hot one for many of us. It will for sure. Temperatures are on the rise and it looks fabulous in green. I want to talk about what is going on because we have those wildfires burning this morning and i want to get to the current conditions. The hennessey fire is burning to the east of st. Helena and right now, temperatures are in the mid50s. Firefighters are against some warm conditions. The good news is there are calm winds this morning. For the marsh fire, burning east, temperatures are in the mid80s and winds northwest at six miles an hour. There are light conditions for the marsh fire. The deer zone fire, temperatures are in the upper 70s and h
Reporter a lot came out of that press briefing, terry. What we want you to know is the good news is more help is on the way including the national guard. The bad news is more threats are on the way, too. Right now more than 24,000 homes and other buildings are threatened. 115 buildings have been destroyed and 20 more reported yesterday but with more ec the weekend. Firefighters believe that number will go up. Today winds cooperating which allowed firefighters make some progress. A good day for firefighters today, the weather have been cooperating with us within the past 24 hours. It is giving us the opportunity to jump on or control objectives and being able to establish lines in a variety of parts of the fire. Reporter the north zone is looking good. In santa cruz county, firefighters have got a second control line from highway 1 to highway 9. Aircraft did make a few drops today but because of the smoke they had to stop. Cal fire admits they are definitely short staff. National crews